Key Takeaways
- • Tenzin Seldon, Founder and Managing Partner of Pulse Fund, has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Climate Leaders List, according to a Business Wire release.
- • Recognition comes eight weeks after Seldon closed Pulse Fund's debut fund as its solo managing partner, backed by institutional investors including a sovereign wealth fund, Pivotal Foundation, and the Pritzker family, during what the release describes as the most difficult fundraising environment for climate capital in a decade.
- • Pulse Fund, a venture capital firm investing across energy transition, infrastructure, food and agriculture, and mobility, counts Endera, Floodbase, InventWood, it's electric, Mast Reforestation, Plantible, Twelve, and Unravel Carbon among its portfolio companies.
- • Seldon created Gross Domestic Regeneration (GDR), a framework designed to complement GDP by scoring economies on ecological, social, and capital regeneration capacity; the Gross Domestic Regeneration Institute she founded and chairs plans a pilot with a consortium of eight countries selected from fifteen under consideration.
- • Seldon is scheduled to attend TIME's TIME100 Impact Dinner in Antalya, Türkiye, on November 10, during COP31.
Summary
Tenzin Seldon, Founder and Managing Partner of Pulse Fund and Creator of Gross Domestic Regeneration (GDR), has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Most Influential Climate Leaders List, according to a Business Wire release. The recognition follows the close of Pulse Fund's debut fund eight weeks earlier, which Seldon closed as its solo managing partner. The fund was backed by institutional investors including a sovereign wealth fund, Pivotal Foundation, and the Pritzker family, and was raised in what the release characterizes as the most difficult fundraising environment for climate capital in a decade. The release describes Seldon as a first-time solo general partner with no prior fund track record who built Pulse into an institutional-scale fund.
Pulse Fund is a venture capital firm investing in scalable climate companies across energy transition, infrastructure, food and agriculture, and mobility. Before founding Pulse, Seldon built several companies, including a net-negative infrastructure company, and oversaw disaster risk reduction policy at the United Nations Environment Programme in Asia. The firm's portfolio includes Endera, Floodbase, InventWood, it's electric, Mast Reforestation, Plantible, Twelve, and Unravel Carbon. Pulse frequently leads financing rounds and takes board seats. Co-founders of portfolio companies, including Nicholas Flanders of Twelve and Bessie Schwarz of Floodbase, credited Seldon's backing with opening strategic partnerships, follow-on capital, and institutional credibility. Randall Mays, Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and a Pulse limited partner, and Omani Carson, Founder of Momentis Family Office and Carson Group, also praised her investment discipline in the release.
Seldon's work extends to economic measurement through Gross Domestic Regeneration, a framework intended to work alongside GDP. GDR scores economies on ecological, social, and capital regeneration capacity using nine indicators drawn from public data, and it is designed so that weakness in one pillar cannot be offset without lowering the overall score. The Gross Domestic Regeneration Institute, which Seldon founded and chairs, leads development of the framework with universities, non-profits, corporations, and nation-states. According to the release, fifteen countries are under consideration for an initial consortium of eight to implement GDR as a pilot. Justin Winters, Founder and Executive Director of One Earth, endorsed the initiative.
Seldon is scheduled to attend TIME's TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action in Antalya, Türkiye, on November 10, during COP31. The release notes she also sits on the boards of publicly traded Marathon Digital Holdings and of Stanford HAI and One Earth. Note that the recognition and fund details come from a company-issued press release and have not been independently verified.
Pulse Fund is a venture capital firm investing in scalable climate companies across energy transition, infrastructure, food and agriculture, and mobility. Before founding Pulse, Seldon built several companies, including a net-negative infrastructure company, and oversaw disaster risk reduction policy at the United Nations Environment Programme in Asia. The firm's portfolio includes Endera, Floodbase, InventWood, it's electric, Mast Reforestation, Plantible, Twelve, and Unravel Carbon. Pulse frequently leads financing rounds and takes board seats. Co-founders of portfolio companies, including Nicholas Flanders of Twelve and Bessie Schwarz of Floodbase, credited Seldon's backing with opening strategic partnerships, follow-on capital, and institutional credibility. Randall Mays, Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and a Pulse limited partner, and Omani Carson, Founder of Momentis Family Office and Carson Group, also praised her investment discipline in the release.
Seldon's work extends to economic measurement through Gross Domestic Regeneration, a framework intended to work alongside GDP. GDR scores economies on ecological, social, and capital regeneration capacity using nine indicators drawn from public data, and it is designed so that weakness in one pillar cannot be offset without lowering the overall score. The Gross Domestic Regeneration Institute, which Seldon founded and chairs, leads development of the framework with universities, non-profits, corporations, and nation-states. According to the release, fifteen countries are under consideration for an initial consortium of eight to implement GDR as a pilot. Justin Winters, Founder and Executive Director of One Earth, endorsed the initiative.
Seldon is scheduled to attend TIME's TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Creating Climate Action in Antalya, Türkiye, on November 10, during COP31. The release notes she also sits on the boards of publicly traded Marathon Digital Holdings and of Stanford HAI and One Earth. Note that the recognition and fund details come from a company-issued press release and have not been independently verified.
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